"Now, the Yuan Family Head's sword was just about to pierce Zhang Yuanrang's heart!"
"In the blink of an eye, a terrifying bolt of lightning suddenly descended from the sky and blasted the Yuan Family Head straight into ashes!"
On the raised platform, the storyteller gestured animatedly as he delivered a tale he had hastily revised based on the events involving the Yuan Family and the Zhang Family.
It was easily the hottest topic of late.
This was an ordinary restaurant, but the stories these storytellers told were circulating throughout the city in the same form.
This was a disgrace to the Yuan Family, and naturally, they did not want it spread around.
But with five figures in the qi refining, spirit transformation realm dead, the other great families no longer took the Yuan Family seriously.
Thus, no one kept these stories in check anymore, and they spread freely throughout Azure City.
For Azure City, this was sensational news of a kind that came only once a century. Even the recent news of the Lin Family Head being driven out of his own family had not caused such a stir.
After all, one had been an internal family struggle, while the other was a genuine instance of an outsider overpowering one of the Three Great Families.
The Three Great Families had run roughshod over Azure City for a long time, and plenty of people had long been waiting to see the Yuan Family suffer a setback.
"Heh, word has spread so quickly, yet the story I wanted to release hasn't stirred even a ripple... Zhang Yuanrang? Well played."
In a corner, a black-robed man murmured to himself.
Not a single person noticed his presence. Everyone carried on talking as though they could not see him.
The Black-Robed Man, however, was